There are many lessons I have learned in the nineteen years of my life. For starters I have learned to respect my peers, always listen to my parents, and to follow all the rules at school. If these lessons were not obeyed, consequences would follow. I believe the most valuable lesson that impacted my life the most was learning not to play with fire. The first time my brother, my sister, and I tried to make a fire it ended badly. I will never forget what happened that day and will probably tell my future children so they know the dangers that could occur when playing with fire. Looking back to when I was about the age of seven, my older brother who was nine at the time, and my younger sister who was only six had caught the backyard on fire. I remember it was a sunny afternoon and my father had just gotten home from working an overnight shift at his new job at Marshall Durbin. My mother had just left to go to work soon after, and my father had went to go lay down for a few hours sleep. We lived, practically in the middle of nowhere, in Carbon Hill with my grandparents. It was a single wide trailer that was tan in color and had a beautiful flat half acre backyard. The only people that we considered neighbors lived miles away from the house. We did not mind living far from people, because we liked the peace and quiet. …show more content…
We had all decided that since there was three of us that we could handle everything on our own and that we did not need adult supervision. So I snuck into my father’s room where he kept his thick shiny silver lighter next to his carton of cigarettes on the nightstand beside his bed. As I was getting the lighter my younger sister was in the kitchen grabbing the Hershey bars, graham crackers, and marshmallows. After we got all the items we needed to make the s 'mores, and to light the fire we meet in the backyard with my older
In Corsicana, Texas, Cameron Willingham and his family’s home was burned down the twenty-third of December 1991. According to the report, Cameron was asleep when the fire started and survived the accident with only a few injuries, as for his children they were not so lucky, they lost their lives to the tragic accident. At the time of the accident, Cameron’s wife was buying presents for their children for Christmas. According to a witness, her daughter Diane and Buffie from a few houses down went outside and saw Cameron screaming, “My babies are burning up!” Diane and Cameron tried countless attempts to rescue the girls from their room until the fire department could get there.
On top of that, I learned a valuable lesson from the failure and the loss as well. From that day forth, the past experiences transformed me to be a hard-working and responsible person. Furthermore, I acknowledged that when something bad happens, it can prepare us for the future obstacles, so let always be optimistic and never give up on trying.
The lesson I appreciated the most is that one should not give up on something they believe in, just
Learn to “sit in the fire” is probably one of the most challenging things I will have to push myself through and learn as a social worker. Extreme emotions are overwhelming, and intense experiences are often very hard to process. One thing that I tend to do is try to jump in and fix people’s problems, whether they be small like not knowing the answer to a question, or big like conflicts between friends, but as I have gone through the process of learning how to be a social worker, I have learned the importance taking a step back and realizing that not only can I not fix everyone’s problems, but also, some problems can’t be solved. The text discusses not simply being a passive bystander, but to be engaged in other peoples’ lives and what they are experiencing. Finding this balance will be a critical skill to combat burnout as I grow into a professional social worker.
“To Build A Fire” is a clear example of naturalism and follows many of its conventions. Some of the characteristics of naturalism are being conditioned or controlled by the environment, having the world understood only through objective science, conflicts which bring out the instincts of man, pessimism, and presenting a viewpoint which is detached from the reader.
People sometimes enjoy being in life or death situations. If something bad happens to these people, is it their fault? The people that do this should be held accountable for everything that happens. This is because mistakes can easily be avoided by preparation, people should always be aware of their surroundings, and people are to blame for their actions when they include other people or things. Accidents are also very rare when they couldn’t be prevented by preparation.
The fire service revolves around the science of fire behavior. The fire service must understand the science behind fire to successfully attack and defeat the aspects of fire behavior, the products of combustion and prevent loss of life and property, Modern technology both hurts and helps how the fire will behave in a variety of scenarios, previous fire science research and education were based on vertical ventilation and a coordinated fire attack. However, a new study conducted in 2012 by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) produced science applied research on both analytical data and reconstructed visual comparisons on fire behavior proving old fire suppression methods are dangerous
Motherhood has taught me many life lessons. Before becoming a mother, I was a self centered child. I had no motivation to succeed. All I was worried about was where the next party was. At that time I had no want to try because I was so scared to fail. I was slowly progressing to go nowhere and do nothing with my life. That has all changed now. I no longer party or use drugs. I work full time, attend college full time and devote my all to my children. Without them I would probably be in a jail cell not where I am today.
These three lessons were the most significant things I’ve learned while attending school. From kindergarten rules all the way to beginning the road to finding myself. Spending more than half of my life in school I’ve dealt with failure, achievement, and everything in between. I’ve learned great life-lessons that have impacted me greatly not just for the time being, but
many, many lessons during the fall of my junior year, more than I could ever write. I learned a
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
It taught me to encourage others and that positive reinforcement will always work better than punishment. It showed me that being a leader isn’t about being the person with all of the ideas or the most vocal person, but being the person that inspires others to be creative and help share their thoughts and to lead them in the right direction. Like many people, my personal experiences have shaped who I am. As a future educator, I want my students to respect me as a teacher, but understand that I will be there for every one of them, whenever they need me. I will not judge them; I will only encourage them to do their best.
There are numerous lessons that I have learned from life, they were lessons that I learned from good and bad experiences in life. Different experiences from school and out of school that has made me the way I am today. There is a long list of experiences that in reality did not teach me much.
We all grabbed our lawn chairs and cozied up next to the roaring red fire. I always sat a little too close, enough to where the fire burnt a hole straight through my favorite pair of flip-flops, assuring me to never make that mistake again. S’mores was all of our favorite bed time snack time and a perfect way to end the night. Every time I would roast my marshmallow until it became slightly brown, mushy, and not too hot in the center; then I 'd put it between two graham crackers and extra pieces of chocolate. One too many s’mores and a belly like later I laid back in my chair and listened as Nancy told us stories. Before going to bed Nancy told us about her favorite past times here as a child and how just like the little girl we saw fishing, she was also afraid of fishing. She told us stories about how much the campground has evolved since she was a child and how every year she promises to take us here and to keep it a tradition. At bedtime Alicia and I crawl into our tents and snuggle up in our warm sleeping bags. We talked to each other about how sad we felt that it was almost the end of summer, and how nervous we felt to start our freshman year of high school. However, our conversations ended when Nancy yelled at as from the other tent to keep quiet and go to bed. I’d fallen asleep that night to the sound of the fire crackling out and the crickets chirping
The entire family got together and it was always a last minute thing but no matter what was going on we all decide we would go up to County Park Lake to have family time. There would be my grandma and my Aunts and Uncles and their kids when we pulled up to the parking lot. Under the shade trees the women would be sitting trying to stay cool and the older men of the family stand around a grill they would be sitting up the charcoal pyramid to lite to start grilling the food while the kids where at the tot lot playing the equipment you could hear the laughter of the kids playing . Also the mean talking about which is the best way to grill. The women would be laughing at the guys arguing over which way was bett...